Baby Feeding

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From the community

Recent discussions

Feeding

How many ounces is everyone’s 6 week old taking in bottles? Mine seems very behind but she is gaining weight.

Wanting to swap out my 11 month olds tommee tippee bottles for a toddler bottle for his milk. He hasn’t been drinking from the bottle with nursery and they feel it could be the teat.

Any recommendations please? He’s a breastfed baby and we don’t really do bottles at home but he’ll usually take it. Plan to do the switch to cows milk in the lead up to him turning one. Otherwise he loves drinking water from the standard tommee tippee first cups.

Tommee tippee anti colic bottles

I'm thinking about changing to tommee tippee advanced anti colic bottles after using mam anti colic for 10 weeks. Has anyone done the same and seen a positive change in their LOs wind? My LO is so hard to wind due to being on carobel and will be so unsettled all day and barely sleeps! I've tried colief, infacol and gripe water and nothing seems to work 😩

18 month transition from bottles

Best cup to get her off the bottle? Help 😩

Colief

My little one was previously on infacol which helped with his wind but it made his reflux bad so I stopped it. Have just started him on Colief drops but wondering how people make the bottles at night? Some nights he will go down at 7-8 and wake up at 2-3 but some nights 12, the drops need 30 minutes to work so any tips how to make sure they’ve had the time? I made my bottles as I go with the rapid cool xx

How much are we feeding our spooky babies?

I feed my son a 6oz bottle at 6 am then at 9am he gets babyfood. When 12 comes around he gets babyfood and after he lays down with a 6oz bottle. He wakes up a little before 3 and he gets those snack puffs or freeze dried yogurts thingys then a 6oz bottle. at 6pm he gets babyfood again then after bath at 7ish he lays down for the night with a 6oz bottle. He gets up at 1am and at 4am for another 6oz bottle. I got told by the nurse practitioner that im over feeding him but how if he is hungry. Im not going to let him cry and go hungry if he is.

Go prep bottle help

How is everyone washing above the seal on the go prep lid? I feel like its getting grimy but a bottle brush only does the first edge level up to the seal.

1 year old transition

Which non-dairy milk did your little one transition to when they turned 1?

Bottles 1year old

Is anyone else struggling with getting their 1yr old off using their normal milk bottle? My little boy has a full on melt down and refuses to drink his milk in any other bottle than his baby bottle. Or he’ll take a glug of the milk in the bottle we are trying to change it too and just spits out everywhere. We’ve tried using the tomme tippee bottles, sippy cup and straw cup. The mam toddler bottle & a 360 cup.

Bit lost on how I’m supposed to get him off using these bottles with the way the last 3 weeks have gone😬😬

Husband wants us to switch from breast to formula

My husband thinks that my breast milk isn’t good for the baby and that he’s wanting to eat too much and our first son drank formula. And he was such a good quiet barely cried baby. And this one had some bad baby acne it’s not that bad now but he’s still not even q month and I told him that happens but he brings up how our first had nice smooth skin. But I don’t think it has anything to do with the milk maybe more like each baby is different ? And he keeps referring to my milk as “poison” and it’s making me think it might be that? Any opinions on someone who did both ? And noticed any behavior changes ?

Milk feeds

Hi ladies - my boy is on 3 meals a day and has little snacks. He is a great eater! He has dropped to only 7oz bottles a day (morning, then night), and is now not really finishing these. Should I add a bottle somewhere? Or is this okay?

Travelling and bottle feeding

Hello mums!

We're going on our first holiday abroad with our baby in a few weeks and I'm struggling to work out how to pack everything we need for bottle feeding (bottles, pump, sterilising stuff) without it taking up loads of space!

Open to any tips and tricks, thanks so much!

How often are we feeding?

I'm unsure if to keep doing what I'm doing or try and add an extra bottle in somewhere. On 16th April she weighed 9lb 12 and she got weighed yesterday and currently 10lb 13.
She currently is averaging around 22/23oz a day with 5 feeds and feeds every 3 hours on average
When she got weighed yesterday she dropped a bit on the centiles (currently between 2nd and 9th). My HV wasn't concerned and just asked how much and how often but wondering if its worth trying to get another bottle in somewhere. As I worked out for her new weight she should be having around 28oz a day. Shes happy in herself but she's never really been one for telling me she's hungry. She will sometimes but its rare. I usually go off on how long its been since the last feed

How much is your little one drinking?

Out of curiosity:

How many ml is your little one having per feed?

How many feeds per day?

How many weeks are they?

Formula or expressed breast milk?

11 week old

what’s the max i can feed my 11 week old in one bottle? he’s currently on 210, can i up it to 240? as i feel in the mornings he could have atleast an ounce more ( my babies weight dropped on top of this)

FTM — Is my 5 day old getting enough milk? Should I switch to formula?

My baby boy is breastfed and his pee count today was 3 diapers and 1 poop so far. A nurse from the hospital I delivered at suggested I give him formula to see if it increases but i’d rather breastfeed or pump and bottle feed She said to try formula because he might not be getting enough milk from me.

It seems like he is though because our feedings are going well, he passes out after a feeding and i feed him every 2-3 hours. and i hear him swallowing while i feed him. the nurse over the phone was really pushing me to give him formula when she called this morning but i waited a bit and then he started peeing back to back. He also had his NB appointment with the pediatrician yesterday and she said he’s doing great so far. Any advice or opinions?

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